Collected Short Stories: Volume 3 - Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Dan Sullivan it opens on Patient Number

it opens on Patient Number One―Vladimir Putin

Publication Date: 25 Oct 2011

directly democratic politics

Author: Richard Webster

at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989

Collected Short Stories: Volume 3 - Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Dan Sullivan it opens on Patient NumberWho better qualified to chronicle the experiences of an author agent during the First World War than Somerset Maugham, himself a writer turned spy? His alter ego is Ashenden, a calm observer with a cool head. From his almost casual recruitment into Intelligence at the beginning of hostilities we follow his progress through a series of incidents. There is the fiasco of the Hairless Mexican, a ladies' man and thoroughly inept assassin. And the pathetic